Pilot Hi-Tec-C Coleto 0.5mm Gel Multipen – Brown and Apple Green

First pen out of my new JetPens order that gets reviewed is this Hi-Tec-C Coleto. I was a little leery of purchasing this at first, since I didn’t really have a wonderful experience with the original Hi-Tec-C I purchased, but I must admit that I was pleasantly surprised. I purchased the two-cartridge body and one refill each of 0.5mm brown and apple green ink.

The pen body is rather plain, featuring no grip other than a gnurled plastic, and is designed so that the refills themselves are the plungers, rather than having them attached to the pen. It also refills in an odd way in that a small hinged “door” at the top of the pen opens and you slide the refills down into the pen barrel. My issue with this is how durable it will be. Will this “door” break off if I happen to drop this pen? Will the plastic “latch” dull down after a while and pop open on its own, causing my refills to go flying every which way? Well, we shall see…

As for the ink itself, I was very surprised and pleased with how it writes. It is still a little scratchy compared to some, but whem compared to the last Hi-Tec-C I purchased, it write like a dream. The brown and apple green ink are very bright and vivid, and I must admit that when I chose them, I meant to pick out a “tree” theme…

The notes section on my review sheet mentions that I didn’t know what the difference was between the regular Hi-Tec-C’s and the Coleto, but I did discover what it was… There isn’t one. The Coleto brand refers to the multi-pen series.

41/45 = 4.5/5

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I was very close to buying one of these yesterday, but I decided against it after hearing the ink life is very short. I ended up buying the Signo 2 color + pencil and the Jetstream3. Keep us posted on how long the ink lasts 🙂 I’d be interested to hear that. I have one Hi-Tec (doesn’t say it’s a Hi-Tec-C for some reason) but I haven’t used it much yet in fear that it will run out shortly.

These are good pens. I have three 4-slot coleto (Red, Purple, Greenish-Blue) and one 3-slot body (Clear) which I melted by playing around with a Bunsen burner in school. I highly recommend this series of coleto pens as they are the best pens to use. By the way, there’s a new mechanical pencil mechanism for the coleto pens. And to Derek, the ink life depends on which refills you pick. 0.3mm refills are thin, so it’s obviously got longer ink life. If you’re gonna choose 0.5mm…you’ll feel like you’re wasting ink. Pilot made these variations of ink refills to suit users. So, you might wanna try one out. And the body is VERY lasting. The latch doesn’t come out by itself, unless you’re playing with it when you’re thinking in the midst of writing an essay or something. Well, the grip sure gets dirty and yellowish. But you can wash it, with all the refills taken out. That’s all, hope everyone tries it out. It’s a good pen.